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Originally Posted by My2Cents  Shouldn’t he have used Latin to speak to god? |
Charles V was deeply embedded into the Spanish catholic church, to the point where he lived his last years in a villa attached to a Hyronomite cloister.
Of course there are different versions of that quote too. The second version would be
hablo latín con Dios, italiano con los músicos, español con las damas, francés en La corte, alemán con los lacayos e inglés con mis caballos, the third version would be
Alemán con los soldados, Inglés con los perros, Francés con las señoras, Italiano con los embajadores, Español con Dios.
The second version is the one that's been made official by said cloister. Latin with god, italian with the musicians, spanish with the women, french at the court, german with the servants and english with the horses.
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Originally Posted by Beatmaster Latin, Spanish, France, Dutch/Flemish, British (Or Britannic) where languages spoken by most nobles regardless of origin in medieval Europa. |
To quote Charles V on that - supposedly, according to Pierre de Bourdille, after being asked to speak French:
entiéndame si quiere, y no espere de mi otras palabras que en mi lengua española, la cual es tan noble que merece ser sabida y entendida de toda la gente cristiana. 
